Category Archives: wordpress

Bootstrap, a CSS Framework from Twitter

By sam | Published: January 19, 2012

I ran across the Bootstrap, from Twitter today. What beautiful-looking code! This could be a great place to start with for a new WP theme or for any other site I’m working on. [via: wpMail.me and wpCandy]

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By sam | Published: December 13, 2011

WordPress 3.3 was just released. Make sure you get your update!

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WordPress network on Dreamhost

By sam | Published: March 12, 2011

WordPress, as of version 3.0, allows you to set up more than one site within the same installation. Each site uses the same core software and users can use the same credentials in all the sites they have access to across the network. Essentially, it allows you to set up a mini WordPress.com. Since I [...]

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Presentation: WordPress Off Road

By sam | Published: November 13, 2010

Here are the slides from my presentation at WordCamp Minneapolis / St. Paul, 2010. I talked about a PHP class I wrote called wp_posts, how to update options across multiple WordPress sites in a WordPress multisite installation, and how to get LDAP authentication for multisite WordPress up and rolling. WordPress Off Road – Slides

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Speaking at WordCamp MSP, 2010

By sam | Published: November 6, 2010

I’m going to be speaking at WordCamp Minneapolis 2010 on November 13. My presentation is titled WordPress Off Road. I’m going to talk about integrating WordPress with a multi-faceted (non-WordPress) website. I will be introducing a PHP class called wp_posts for exporting WordPress posts, scripts I’ve developed for maintaining multi-site WordPresses and experiences setting up [...]

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WP Plugin: Widget Context

By sam | Published: August 13, 2010

Last night I ran across a WordPress plugin called Widget Context by Kaspars Dambis. The plugin gives you the ability to control on what context any widget will show up in, allowing you to narrow down widget content to certain types of posts / pages, to certain categories and URL’s. It’s really useful and allowed [...]

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LDAP authentication for multi-site WordPress 3.0

By sam | Published: July 19, 2010

I manage two WordPress installations with multi-site (previously WP MU). Logins via LDAP would be ideal. I hadn’t had any luck making the existing LDAP plugins to work with Novell eDirectory. However, we just moved to use Active Directory (AD) and so I retried some of the plugins. I now have Simple LDAP Login (plugin) [...]

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WordPress install and updates with subversion

By sam | Published: July 9, 2010

I’ve installed or upgraded WordPress a number of times recently – most of the time upgrading some older versions to the latest WP 3.0. I read on a couple of the WP folks’ blogs that they use subversion to keep their blogs up to date. So when I set this blog up, I decided to [...]

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